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Jen Oneal steps down as Blizzard co-leader

03-Nov-2021, 12:15 pm Fyra Frost News

Only three months after her appointment she resigns from her position with the company still in a big mess.

Three months was all the time needed for Jen Oneal to abandon her position as co-head of Blizzard. A lawsuit filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after an investigation that revealed stories of multiple women suffering harassment and abuse while working at Activision Blizzard led to a scandal that ended with J.Allen Brack stepping down as President of the company. Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra were appointed the new heads of the company in an attempt...

Marvel's Avengers is not selling XP boosts anymore

03-Nov-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix backpedal and remove pay-to-win items from Marvel's Avengers cash shop due to the pressure from the players.

When Crystal Dynamics announced that it would be possible to acquire XP Boosters for real cash, it didn't sit well with many Marvel's Avengers players. Microtransactions have always been a delicate matter in video games, especially when you can buy things that give you any type of advantage over other players. It does not matter if it's items that directly make your character more powerful, which obviously have an impact in a multiplayer environment or items that grant you additional...

A second Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity DLC is available today

02-Nov-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Wave 2: Age of Remembrance expands the content in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity with new characters, events, and more.

The fans of Link and Princess Zelda have found a comfortable home at Hyrule: Warriors Age of Calamity while they wait for the release of a new installment in the series that is more similar to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. After all, Age of Calamity offers quite a different experience leaving aside puzzles, platforms, and plenty of other RPG elements to focus on thrilling hack and slash combats. As a prequel of sorts to...

Gold transfers got blocked in New World

02-Nov-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

Amazon Games disables transfers in order to prevent a massive economy crash in New World due to a gold dupe exploit.

New World players are having a rough time due to some bugs in the game. A gold dupe exploit in the recently launched MMORPG threatens with destabilizing the whole economy of the game. Even though a similar problem was detected and fixed not too long ago, it seems that Amazon Games has its hands full trying to solve issues after the game's release. First, it was the queues, which were expected. The developer finally managed to implement a character transfer...

Age of Empires IV has a great launch on Steam

01-Nov-2021, 6:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Thousands of players have been enjoying Age of Empires IV after its launch and numbers keep increasing steadily.

All the indicators anticipated that Age of Empires IV was going to be a success. The return of one of the most long-lived and iconic series in the Real-Time Strategy genre was eagerly awaited by a lot of fans. The proof is that it's been one of the games most played on Steam last weekend following its launch. Age of Empires IV had almost 70,000 concurrent players on Steam, leaving far behind Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, which...

The Dark Pictures Anthology's new chapter is The Devil in Me

01-Nov-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Filming a documentary about a famous murderer will lead to a completely unexpected and terrifying experience in The Devil in Me.

The fans of the horror games were in for a nice treat when the first chapter in The Dark Pictures Anthology was announced. Man of Medan offered the player a new type of cooperative horror experience but knowing that it would be followed by several other chapters guaranteed that the level of fun could only increase. The formula used in the games in The Dark Pictures Anthology is quite simple but at the same time incredibly effective in delivering a...

DARQ is free on PC this week

29-Oct-2021, 3:00 pm Fyra Frost Free Games

Finding yourself trapped inside a nightmare in DARQ is one of the best ways of celebrating Halloween this week.

Halloween is the perfect time of the year to enjoy horror games. Epic Games knows it, and they have chosen suitable games to give away for free this week. Last week you could delve into the world of dreams thanks to Among the Sleep, which was available for free on Epic Games Store. This week the scenario is completely changed in DARQ, a horror adventure game that takes a completely different approach to that mysterious universe we visit when we...

Try Metroid Dread for free before buying

29-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost Demo

Join Damus Aran as she travels to Planet ZDR to deal with a parasite infestation in Metroid Dread free demo.

The huge popularity of the Metroid video game series and its protagonist Samus Aran are enough to grant the success of Metroid Dread. The new game was recently released for Nintendo Switch. It has had a very warm welcome from the players, who are already exploring every nook and cranny of the remote Planet ZDR looking for a way of getting rid of a dangerous parasite known as X. Metroid Dread is a side-scrolling action game that features the...

The King of Fighters XV will have an open beta

28-Oct-2021, 2:00 pm Fyra Frost News

The iconic fighting series will return soon and this is your chance to give The King of Fighters XV a try ahead of release.

Developer SNK has been one of the most popular video game developers for quite a while. Seasoned video game players have probably spent countless hours playing games like Sengoku, Fatal Fury, and Metal Slug, on arcades and the Neo Geo console. The company has also created some iconic fighting game series, including Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters. These series have always competed with Capcom's Street Fighter to be at the top of the genre, and they have secured...

Death's Door is coming to Switch and PlayStation consoles

28-Oct-2021, 11:00 am Fyra Frost News

The popular action-adventure video game wil drop its PC/Xbox exclusivity very soon, and you will be able to hunt down souls as a crow on other platforms.

Death's Door has managed to catch the attention of many players with its unusual storyline and frantic gameplay that combines lots of action and beautiful scenarios. Getting into the shoes of a small crow that has to gather souls in the underworld is not something that you do every day, but it's the job of the protagonist of the game. Hunting down stray souls that have lost her way is more complicated than it would seem at first glance, especially...

Learn more details about Lost Ark upcoming beta

27-Oct-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost Beta Access

Discover what kind of content you will be able to enjoy next week if you are chosen to participate in Lost Ark closed beta event.

It's been a long while since it was announced that the Korean MMORPG Lost Ark was coming to the West. We have watched plenty of videos showcasing gameplay footage, the beautiful world of Arkesia, the incredible combat animations, the wide variety of skills of the multiple classes present in the game, and more. Plenty of players are waiting for the upcoming free-to-play game to be released, but very few have had the opportunity of trying it (unless you managed to...

Returnal allows you to save your game now

27-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

You can finally leave your Returnal game and continue where you left it when you are back.

The roguelike gameplay style of Returnal has frustrated some players for a while now. The game features an amazingly designed alien world that challenges you with a frenetic survival experience as you try to escape from the time loop that affects the planet. The protagonist, Selene, has to face ever-changing conditions and fight against all types of deadly aliens while she looks for a way of escaping, but every time she dies, she has to start all over again. Many...

Phasmophobia's Halloween update adds an outdoor map

26-Oct-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost News

It's Halloween already in Phasmophobia. Celebrate it with new ghosts and plenty of new enhancements to the gameplay.

Phasmophobia offers us several haunted scenarios where to hunt ghosts and be hunted by them. Until now, all those scenarios have been indoor locations where we could find plenty of places where to hide from the ghosts if they turned aggressive but things are about to get a bit more complex in the game thatks to a new update. The celebration of Halloween is the perfect occasion to launch a new patch for the game that adds plenty of stuff,...

343 Industries reveals details about Halo Infinite campaign

26-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

Join the Master Chief on another epic adventure to fight the Banished and save the universe in Halo Infinite.

Halo Infinite has been in the spotlight for a while. We got to know a lot of details about the game, especially its multiplayer features. This comes as no surprise after developer 343 Industries announced that Halo Infinite multiplayer would be free to play, which caused a huge expectation among the fans. As a result, the multiplayer beta that took place recently was a success. But another aspect of the game is getting all the attention now that the release...

Overkill starts revealing details about Payday 3

25-Oct-2021, 3:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Payday 3 will move to a new scenario but the protagonists of the first game will be back for more action in the new installment.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Payday franchise, developer Overkill Software has hosted a livestream. We could watch the developers talking about the popular first-person shooter series focused on criminal activities, but the fundamental part began when they started revealing details about the next installment, Payday 3. The acquisition of the studio by Starbreeze has not diminished the passion that the creators are putting into the new game, but we have had no news about it for...

Darkest Dungeon 2 is ready for Early Access

25-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

Take a first peek at Darkest Dungeon 2 gameplay ahead of tomorrow's launch in Early Access.

One of the most anticipated video games of the year will hit Early Access tomorrow, and plenty of players are ready to participate in the journey. Developer Red Hook Studios is ready to reveal Darkest Dungeon 2 finally. The upcoming gothic horror role-playing game will bring us back to a world full of nightmarish monstrosities, where facing them in combat is enough to drive our heroes mad. We can finally take a peek at the gameplay thanks to a recently...

Gearbox reveals Tiny Tina's Wonderland classes

22-Oct-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Watch the Stabbomancer and the Brr-zerker annihilating enemies in combat in the latest Tiny Tina's Wonderlands video.

After Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was announced, it wasn't quite clear what kind of approach Gearbox would take to certain aspects of gameplay. We already know that we will choose from several classes with different abilities for our characters, but we were eager to know if the game would feature classes similar to the ones in Borderlands 3 or something more similar to the classic archetypes that you can find on pen and paper fantasy role-playing games. It seems...

Among Us will launch on consoles soon

22-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

Get ready for a new wave of Impostors and Crewmates joining your Among Us games next December.

Among Us has become one of the biggest hits in recent years, so much that it's an unending source of funny memes that have flooded the Internet with Impostors and Crewmates in all kinds of situations. Its mechanics are simple. You are part of the crew of a spaceship and need to do maintenance tasks to get it home, but there are Impostors among the crew whose mission is to prevent that by killing all others. Once a corpse is...

Might and Magic X Legacy is playable again

21-Oct-2021, 12:00 pm Fyra Frost News

Ubisoft finally solves the DRM problems with Might and Magic X Legacy and The Falcon & The Unicorn DLC and the game returns to the stores.

You are probably not aware that Might and Magic X was suffering from severe DRM issues that made a part of the game unplayable. The game did not present any problems until last June when Ubisoft decided to shut down the servers in care of checking the ownership of the only DLC available for the game to the date, The Falcon & The Unicorn. Starting June 1st, many players reported that they couldn't access the content in the...

God of War is finally coming to PC

21-Oct-2021, 9:00 am Fyra Frost News

God of War will stop being exclusive to PlayStation, and you will be able to follow the epic adventures of Kratos and his son next January on PC.

It has taken a few years, but it seems that we are finally going to be able to follow the latest chapter in Kratos' adventures on PC. God of War, also known as God of War 4, was released in 2018 for PlayStation consoles and rapidly became the most important game in the popular series. The game takes a new approach to Kratos' story, and we can see him as a father that teaches and protects his only child, Atreus....